Cats famously always land on their feet. Well, almost always. For more than a century, physicists toyed with this idea, using ...

Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I’m an evolutionary biologist who has spent my career studying the evolution of small lizards in the Caribbean. I’m also a lifelong cat lover, but it never ...

Throughout history, felines have had a rather wild and intriguing journey. While one cat species has become domesticated, many others remain wild. Some have become extinct over time, while some ...

Cats have purred beside humans for thousands of years, yet the reasons behind this soothing sound remain a mystery. A new ...

(Chris Winsor/Getty Images) Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and floofiness), but if you and your feline friend aren't ...

Growing up, James Serpell had a cat named Mungo with a penchant for pencils. "If a pencil or pen was on the floor, the cat would bring them to us," he says. Then Mungo would sit and wait, hoping for a ...

In news that probably won’t surprise cat owners, cats that play fetch do it on their own terms. Fetching felines tend to dictate when a fetching session begins and when it ends, a survey of over 900 ...

Are your cats play fighting or fighting fur real? It turns out that certain behaviors in domestic cats could be telltale signs that an interaction is friendly, aggressive or something in between, ...

Cats have taken quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. Scientists long knew the broad outlines of that journey. As humans settled into agriculture and ...

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